Shoutout Saturday-Don’t Say A Word, Mama

📣 It’s Shoutout Saturday and I have to tell you about another wonderful book entitled Don’t Say A Word, Mamá (No Digas Nada, Mamá) by Joe Hayes. – 🌶🌽🍅Hayes teams up with illustrator Esau Valencia to tell the story of two sisters who love each other and their mother so much that they overflow their mother’s…

Give The Gift of Learning

🎁🎁🎁To make your holiday season merry and bright, I am offering my Holiday Baby Box and Holiday Big Box to one-time and monthly subscribers at the $100 level and above! – 📕📗📘You will receive my book of the month along with access to advance content and resources. You also have the option to receive my…

Thanksgiving from the #TeamMCESS

🙏🏾 Thanksgiving is a time when we gather with family and friends to give thanks for all we have received throughout the year. – 🥰 This year, I am especially thankful for all of YOU!!! – 🤗 May God bless you today and always! Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours! – 💁🏽‍♀️What are you thankful for today?

How to Build Your Child’s Motor Skills

🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏾‍♀️🙇🏼‍♂️🙇🏻‍♀️Do you want to build your child’s motor skills? You can do so by inviting your children to help you get your home ready for the holidays! – 🎄Hand your children holiday napkins to fold, or give them decorative pinecones to fill your dining room centerpiece. You can also give them a box of Christmas…

Children Must Be Seen And Heard

👧🏼👦🏾👧🏻🧒🏽👧🏿🧒🏼👧🏽👦🏻Every child needs to know that they are seen, heard, and important. — 🕰 As adults, we must make the effort to give undivided attention to our children. — 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏾‍♀️🙇🏽‍♂️Moments of quality and quantity time impact a child’s identity, self-esteem, confidence, and behavior towards others. — 💁🏽‍♀️ What are ways that you show your children they are…

Are My Career Moves Hurting My Kids? – Part 1

PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 I will never forget the day we drove away from Ms. Susie’s house for the last time. My daughter and son (ages seven and five years old respectively) sat silent in the back seat as we left their beloved caregiver for the last time. Suddenly my son burst…

Happy Sunday, Family

Many of us are preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving, and we know that there is truly something to be thankful for every day! – As we model gratitude and generosity on a daily basis in front of our children through our words and actions, we demonstrate humility and appreciation for God and others. – This lays…

Shoutout Saturday-The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

🌻 It’s Shoutout Saturday and I have to tell you about another one of my favorite books entitled The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by #WilliamKamkwamba and #BryanMealer. – ⚡️Kamkwamba and Mealer team up to tell Kamkwamba’s story of how at the age of fourteen he brought electricity to his village in Malawi to help them through a drought….

Support Your Child’s Learning

In my experience, many fathers desire to be active participants in their children’s education but don’t know how to work with them. – When they use my project-based curriculums, they are able to facilitate their early learners’ education while having fun doing so! – You can help me equip parents to unlock the genius in…

Smart Play My Way

👶🏽👧🏻👦🏾🧒🏼👧🏿Kids are born with the strongest learning tools ever called the five senses: 👅 taste, ✋🏽 touch, 👂🏽hearing, 👁 sight and 👃🏽smell. – 🧸With these tools young children engage in activities I refer to as “Smart Play My Way”. When children play by themselves and with others they make sense of their world and come to know who they are as people. This…

MCESS @ NAEYC 2019

On the scene for #naeycAC in @nashvilletn looking forward to see old friends and meeting new ones! We just checked in to our suite at the Holiday Inn and Suites in Antioch, TN to get a great night’s rest before attending the #naeycAC in Nashville TN! I totally geeked out when I saw our room. I did…

How to Encourage Learning during the Holidays

🍎🍇🍋🥬🌽🥕🍠During the holidays, children look forward to family, festivities, and FOOD! That is why cooking is such a great way to encourage learning at this time of year. – 🙇🏽‍♀️In addition to creating tasty things to eat, cooking experiences help your children learn the following: – 1. how to count 2. how to sequence 3….